With your guidance, your Girl Scouts will learn money skills that will serve them throughout their lives.
With your guidance, your Girl Scouts will learn money skills that will serve them throughout their lives. Your Girl Scout troop will plan and finance its own activities, and you’ll coach your girls as they earn and manage troop funds. Troop activities are powered by proceeds earned through council-sponsored product program activities (such as the Girl Scout Cookie Program), group money-earning activities (council approved, of course!), and any dues your troop may charge.
Remember that all funds collected, raised, earned, or otherwise received in the name of and for the benefit of Girl Scouting belong to the troop and must be used for the purposes of Girl Scouting. Funds are administered through the troop and do not belong to individuals.
*Overseas, individual troops are not permitted to have bank accounts. The Overseas Committee holds one account, and troop balances are maintained as sub-ledgers in this central account. For more information on USAGSO troop finances, check with your OCMT Treasurer and refer to USAGSO’s Volunteer Policies.
Establishing a Troop Account 
Disbanding Troops and Unused Troop Funds
Closing the Troop Account
Money-Earning Basics for Troops
Participation Guidance
Additional Guidelines
Sample Money-Earning Activities
Help Your Troop Reach Its Financial Goals
Financial Management and Product Program Abilities by Grade Level
Working with Sponsors and Other Organizations
Closing the Overseas Committee Account
Overseas Committe Disbanding and Unused Community Funds
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